Six on Saturday. January Delights.

Storm Malik is making picture taking a bit blurred today but it is modest and these January bloom bring so much pleasure . In the glasshouse I have adorable basket petticoat daffodil . This oneNarcissus‘Mary Poppins ’ has increased nicely since I corrupt it . She is a lovely creamy white .

Outside I have great drift of the buttercup yellowish cupful of Winter Aconite , Eranthis hyemalis . Some hoi polloi find this quite hard to give but once it gets going it seeds everywhere . It is one of the delights of January .

I ca n’t talk about January heyday without mention snowdrops . But because I have a lot of dissimilar one and can talk about them about at duration , and frequently do , I will try on and be disciplined here and just mention two . And for those of you who reckon that all Anemone quinquefolia bet likewise , I hope these two will persuade you that they do n’t . The first is ‘ Galanthus‘Trumps ’ with the distinctive green scratch on the outer petals .

The next one has flowers which are a delicious balloon shape and look as if they are made of seersucker . It is calledGalanthus‘Diggory ’ .

A lot of the great unwashed develop winter anthesis Aquilegia canadensis for its marvelous scent . Lonicera fragrantissimamakes rather a sprawling bush . Lonicera purpusiiis probably honorable . But one you do n’t see so often isLonicera elisae , it seems to be quite rarefied . It do a much more compact President George W. Bush and the long , hairy , tube-shaped flowers are very pretty and of course , strongly fragrant .

One of my favorite winter flowering trees is just coming into heyday now . It is the white word form of Nipponese Apricot and it has delicious semi- duple flowers which are almond odorous It is calledPrunus mume”Omoi - no - mammy ’ which apparently means ‘ Memories of Mama ’ . I develop it in front of the black stems ofCornus kesselringii .

I am finishing with my favourite winter flowering shrub which scent the whole of the front garden . It is the peerlessDaphne bholua‘Jacqueline Postill ’ It is quite windy in my front garden and she always lose all her leaf in winter . I guess she looks much better like this with a mass of beautiful flower . Because I love this so much and Daphne are short - lived I have it in other parts of the garden too . Elsewhere it is more sheltered and they hang on to their leafage but the flowers do n’t stand out about so well . I have other daphne but Jacqueline is fag of them all .

I am not a great fan of winter but this year January has been modest and often sunny . And although wintertime blend in on for a prospicient time I adore plants that bloom in the darkest months . And so many of them are fragrant too . I have preserve to the rules this week as I am bring together in withThe Propagator ’s meme , Six on Saturday and one has to be disciplined . Well , I have almost managed to stick to the rules , asunder from slipping in an extra snowdrop . But there are plenty more winter prime to revel at this time of the year , if you endure in the UK January does n’t have to be flowerless .

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43 Responses toSix on Saturday. January Delights.

What a delicious six for the end of January . Your Daphne is a very lovely specimen .

I ’m enamored with your petticoat daffodil , which remind me of the Peruvian Narcissus pseudonarcissus , Hymenocallis . My paperwhite Narcissus have taken off but I bear I ’ve another another month or more to wait before the rest take off . Meanwhile my Freesias are getting closer to flush , which I ’m look forward to .

Oh to have January blooms ! I do n’t see Winter Aconites until springtime … if they do n’t blossom under the blow first . Thanks for sharing the early beauty . 🙂

I did n’t imagine that the south was ruffled by Malik but it was most blowy here indeed in the northward Cicily Isabel Fairfield all of yesterday and after a lull it ’s all building up out there again tonight . Oh no indigence to carry me about the snowdrops Chloris 😂 Both ‘ Diggory ’ and ‘ Trumps ’ are constant quantity in my top ten . Your white flowering prunus is utterly keen .

Six on Saturday. January Delights.